The 4th Annual UKABIF Conference
Tuesday 13th November 2012
The National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham
UKABIF's Brain Injury Conference provides the perfect event to update yourself on all that is new in brain injury rehabilitation and network with leading clinicians and providers of brain injury care.
The conference is aimed at clinicians, case managers, personal injury lawyers, social care workers, voluntary organisations and care providers and will this year cover topics from neuroimaging and sleep to music therapy and commissioning. The Awards for Innovation and Inspiration will also take place at the conference and there is a growing section for poster presentations.
Programme
9.00 – 9.50 Registration
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome and Introduction Professor Mike Barnes UKABIF Chair
10.15 – 11.00 Neurological Music Therapy for Brain Injury Professor Michael Thaut, Adminstrative Director, School of the Arts Professor of Music Professor of Neuroscience Scientific Director, Center for Biomedical Reseach in Music Colorado State University Fort Collins CO, USA
11.00 – 11.30 Neuroimaging and cognitive function after brain injury Dr David Sharp, NIHR Research Professor and Honorary Consultant Neurologist with a special interest in traumatic brain injury, Imperial College, London
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break
12.00 – 12.30 Sleep disorders after brain injury Professor Mike Barnes, MD FRCP Professor of Neurological Rehabilitation Hunters Moor Neurorehabilitation Ltd
12.30 – 1.00 Visual aspects of brain injury rehabilitation Mark Menezes, Neuro-Developmental Optometrist
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch and Exhibition
2.00 – 2.30 UKABIF Awards for Innovation and Inspiration 2012
2.30 – 3.00 The role of peer support in recovery and rehabilitation following ABI Ava Easton, Chief Executive Officer The Encephalitis Society
3.00 – 3.30 Tea Break
3.30 – 4.00 Higher executive problems - what are they and what can we do about them? Dr Andrew Worthington, Clinical Neuropsychologist and Director Headwise
4.00 – 4.30 The New Commissioning Arrangements for ABI Speaker to be confirmed
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If you wish to book on this event, please click on the following link: Bookings for the The 4th Annual UKABIF Conference 2012
or alternatively download the pdf of the programme and post it to the following address:
Thanks to our conference sponsors
